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Do these polynomials have alternating coefficients?
In answering another MathOverflow question, I stumbled across the sequence of polynomials $Q_n(p)$ defined by the recurrence
$$Q_n(p) = 1-\sum_{k=2}^{n-1} \binom{n-2}{k-2}(1-p)^{k(n-k)}Q_k(p).$$
Thus:
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